New Orleans Our first steps in the direction of organizing lower wage workers into worker associations which might lead to what unions started 35 years ago when household workers who were also called domestics or maids were finally able to be paid the federal minimum wage. I moved from Little Rock to New Orleans and …
Tag: DOL
Yes Ma’am, The Help, and Housekeeping
New Orleans I haven’t been able to bring myself to see, The Help, a movie ostensibly set in the early 1960’s in Jackson, Mississippi where a young, white writer gives voice to her African-American maid friends during the Civil Rights era. Fantasy has little appeal for me. I did go to see the Gary …
Mounting Casualties of Total War on Poor and Low Wage Workers
New Orleans In wars, if we are able and willing to endure the pain and sorrow, we can read the casualty count, virtually on a daily basis of dead and injured. As the war drags on, as we now see in Iraq and Afghanistan, the item gets smaller and moves to the back of the …